The snow started falling during the afternoon shift on Super Sunday. Yet the precipitation outside the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy only heightened the determination of phon-a-thon volunteers to kick off the 2014 Federation Campaign in style.

The men, women, young ad­ults, synagogue groups and communal organizations who took a shift or spent the entire day on the phones could not be thwarted in their quest to raise the dollars needed to support critical programs and services that touch the lives of Jews in Greater Phil­adelphia, in Israel and in the former Soviet Union.